Hyperdrive (but not the awful BBC2 show)

[Clownio]

yep, there were experiments done years ago that showed air density was significantly lower in areas above where a couple of tesla coils were stashed. It's all very interesting!.

Yes its absolutely fascinating YAWN !

I actually subscribe to New Scientist and read all about it week before last when the magazine plopped on my doorstep.

Well did you now ?

[Xena]

Not bad, Ladymuck, but if you had real style like Threaded you'd've gone back in time in your time machine and read it over the shoulder of the guy writing the article.

[ladymuck]

yep, there were experiments done years ago that showed air density was significantly lower in areas above where a couple of tesla coils were stashed. It's all very interesting!

I actually subscribe to New Scientist and read all about it week before last when the magazine plopped on my doorstep.

[The Master]

Told you.

[threaded]

25 Tesla difficult to make? Pish, I had two 20 Telsa superconducting magnets in a Helmholtz configuaration in the lab at least 15 years ago.

[The Master]

Seems like it might be achievable after all. Mind you, they could save themselves a lot of trouble by getting in touch with Threaded - I'm sure he developed a practical hyperdrive in his shed years ago.

Take a leap into hyperspace
05 January 2006
From New Scientist Print Edition
Haiko Lietz

EVERY year, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics awards prizes for the best papers presented at its annual conference. Last year's winner in the nuclear and future flight category went to a paper calling for experimental tests of an astonishing new type of engine. According to the paper, this hyperdrive motor would propel a craft through another dimension at enormous speeds. It could leave Earth at lunchtime and get to the moon in time for dinner. There's just one catch: the idea relies on an obscure and largely unrecognised kind of physics. Can they possibly be serious?

The AIAA is certainly not embarrassed. What's more, the US military has begun to cast its eyes over the hyperdrive concept, and a space propulsion researcher at the US Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories has said he would be interested in putting the idea to the test. And despite the bafflement of most physicists at the theory that supposedly underpins it, Pavlos Mikellides, an aerospace engineer at the Arizona State University in Tempe who reviewed the winning paper, stands by the committee's choice. "Even though such features have been explored before, this particular approach is quite unique," he says.

Take a leap into hyperspace